“…The investigation of squeezed states of light [1] is of fundamental interest, and has applications to practical precision measurements [2,3]. Recently, spin squeezed states for an ensemble of atoms [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24] have become important, with potential applications to atomic interferometers and precise atomic clocks. For quantum information applications [25], the close relation between atomic spin squeezing and quantum entanglement [26,27,28,29,30] enhance the importance of atomic spin squeezing.…”